{"id":2054,"date":"2025-06-09T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2025-06-11T04:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:14:53","slug":"nine-olympic-champions-from-paris-confirmed-for-bislett-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/nine-olympic-champions-from-paris-confirmed-for-bislett-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Olympic Champions from Paris Confirmed for Bislett Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>This year\u2019s Oslo Bislett Games is bringing together some of the best talent the world of athletics has to offer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at the start lists, we find no fewer than nine reigning Olympic champions from Paris:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Kenya<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 800 meters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rai Benjamin, USA<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 400 meter hurdles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Armand Duplantis, Sweden<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Pole vault.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ethan Katzberg, Canada<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Hammer throw.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Markus Rooth, Norway<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Decathlon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Julien Alfred, Saint Lucia<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 100 meters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Winfred Yavi, Bahrain<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 3000 meter steeplechase.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Thea LaFond, Dominica<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Triple jump.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Haruka Kitaguchi, Japan<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Javelin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/oslo-2025-five-things-to-look-out-for\/\">Oslo 2025: Five things to look out for &#8211; Diamond League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, two world record holders from the Nordic countries will be competing:&nbsp;Karsten Warholm&nbsp;in the 400 meter hurdles and&nbsp;Mondo Duplantis&nbsp;in the pole vault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldathletics.org\/news\/preview\/oslo-bislett-games-2025-warholm-benjamin-dos-santos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fierce clashes and record attempts on the card for Oslo &#8211; World Athletics.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost equally impressive is a closer look at the athletes&#8217; overall medal hauls from the Olympics and World Championships.<br>Across the two days of competition, the participating athletes have collectively won more than 15 individual Olympic gold medals and over 20 World Championship golds. When counting all medals, we\u2019re looking at more than 40 individual Olympic medals and 60 World Championship medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you\u2019ve got a ticket to the event or plan to watch on TV, now\u2019s the time to sit back and <a href=\"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/programme-results\/\">take a look at the start lists<\/a> \u2013 which are now officially published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Oslo Bislett Games is bringing together some of the best talent the world of...","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oslo-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}